Michael Geist recently reported that Rogers, an internet service provider, has changed its approach for failed DNS lookups, which happens when an internet user types in a domain name that does not resolve. Now, instead of reaching a standard error page, Rogers’ customers are being redirected to a sponsored page that contains links to Rogers’ […]
Carolyn Gudmundson, a former program manager at Microsoft’s MSN division, has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for defrauding the company out of nearly $1 Million in fake domain name registration fees.
Between 2000 and 2004, Gudmundson submitted invoices with inflated charges for registration fees, billed the company for registrations that had already been paid, […]
While Andy Purdy called the auctions of the 4-letter .tv domains that use the call letters of U.S. TV stations “highly-prized”, it seems that his speculation was a bit of hype.
On Friday of last week, Purdy posted a report on his website explaining that a Florida resident had let 285 4-letter .tv domain names […]
The new 2.0 firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch includes a new Safari shortcut that goes beyond “.com”.
According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog, when you type in your web address you can now hold down the “.com” button to get the choice of three more extensions - “.net”, “.edu” and “.org”.
There is no word […]
According to an article by Information Week, attorney Hal K. Levitte spent over $887.67 on his Google Adsense campaign to advertise his legal services and is now suing Google for placing $136.11 worth of those ads on parked domain pages. Out of the 202,528 impressions on parked domains, Levitte only received 668 clicks and zero […]
After several of ICANN’s domain names were hacked in June, ICANN has blamed the attack on Register.com.
Although ICANN didn’t name the registrar explicitly, a WHOIS search shows that all the temporarily hacked domains - icann.com, icann.net, iana.com and iana-servers.com - were registered with Register.com.
“The DNS redirect was a result of an attack on ICANN’s registrar’s […]
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NBC Universal, along with private equity firms Bain Capital LLC and Blackstone Group LP, has agreed to a purchase price to buy the Weather Channel, including Weather.com, from Landmark Communications Inc.
The terms have not been disclosed, but a number of media outlets are speculating the price to be around $3.5 billion. Weather.com, created […]
The Montenegrin ccTLD, .me, is off to a great start with over 30,000 domain name applications to date. The country’s extension - whose slogan is “.Me is about YOU!” - holds a lot of value due to the potential for personalization.
It is certain that buy.me, fly.me, play.me, and some adult possibilities have drawn large amounts […]
Spain’s ccTLD, .es, has passed the one million mark for total domain registrations. This milestone was made possible due to the liberalisation of the registration rules, which happened two years ago.
For the first time ever, in 2007, the country saw more .es domains registered than .com’s.
[via Domain Pulse]
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After a couple weeks of domain name auctions, Bido - the company that auctions 1 name per day - has decided to no longer offer a guaranteed sales price to sellers.
“Looking at domain submissions we learned that if you state that you are willing to give a guarantee if certain guidelines followed, domain owners will […]